Assessing Personal Development Requirements

In the goal worksheet,
the results for each month have been included. You will note that
some of the mini goals have not been met e.g. the diet work was
2 months later than planned and that I didn’t follow the plan
in January due to sickness. As you see in the end, this has not
affected the main goal result. You don’t have to win every
battle to win the war!

Lets look at why there was procrastination with the diet work. I
self-assessed as being low skill and low will. Now I could work
on motivating myself and giving some great self-talk on why I should
stick to a good diet.

But if I lack the basic information to know what that diet is, I
am unlikely to make progress. So, by focussing on closing my knowledge
gap, I will make the most difference and find the motivation follows.
Some people are uncomfortable asking for advice as they feel it
exposes weakness.

Things happen as we go along and even the best laid plans can go
awry. So what should you do when something does not go to plan?
The healthy response is to take action to correct it, and if you
can’t, let yourself be okay about it and move on.

Even the best laid plans can go awry

Let’s look at the sickness in January. The tendency may be
to throw up your arms and say it’s all over and quit, as the
training schedule will be so badly impacted how can I possibly get
in enough running?

An alternative, and more useful response would be to say, okay I’m
sick, take the appropriate medication and use the rest time to amend
the training schedule and work on my mental preparation instead.
Perhaps I can spend more time with my partner motivating them to
join me in training runs and helping get my pace back.

Optimism in the
face of adversity is a learned skill and often, changing how you
think about an event can change the whole meaning. Reviewing your
progress regularly and being honest with yourself will all help
towards increasing your goal achievement success rate.